{"id":946,"date":"2024-07-28T16:51:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T16:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/?p=946"},"modified":"2024-07-28T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T18:37:00","slug":"sorry-for-lack-of-updates-i-was-volunteering-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/28\/sorry-for-lack-of-updates-i-was-volunteering-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry for lack of updates &#8211; I was volunteering in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In April I was called upon to volunteer my skills as a physician in the Gaza Strip, preparation for this and ultimately a 4 week deployment in June has taken up all of my free time and energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The devastation that has been inflicted on the civilian population of Gaza, especially to the children, is immense and indescribable. I often would see more children die in one day than I had in my entire 6 year career as an emergency physician. This needs to stop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a signatory to this letter to congress: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/26\/world\/open-letter-45-us-physicians-gaza\/index.html<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope to start making small comics about my experiences in Gaza. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope to start working on Leaf Scar again in the next few weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April I was called upon to volunteer my skills as a physician in the Gaza Strip, preparation for this and ultimately a 4 week deployment in June has taken up all of my free time and energy. The devastation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leafscar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}